My Net Worth: Eke Panuku CEO David Rankin

My Net Worth: Eke Panuku CEO David Rankin
David Rankin spent years living in Northcote, on the North Shore, where the family home was. His mother lived in it into her 80s.
Maria Slade
David Rankin is the chief executive of Eke Panuku Development Auckland, the council-controlled organisation that delivers urban regeneration projects in our largest city. Most of his career has been in local government in his beloved hometown, first with what was the Takapuna City Council and later as head of Auckland City Council. He is a history nerd with a fascination for what makes cities great.I’ve always been an Aucklander. My parents were raised in Balmoral, within half a kilometre of each other, and that’s where I spent the...

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